Slackware :: Using Syslinux To Create A USB-Live Disk?
Apr 5, 2010
Update: I've been looking into third party tools and Slackware live Distributions, example, "Slax"; still, I have yet to have complete success.
I have discovered that by using syslinux I can make the USB Hard-drive Bootable -- I learned this by playing around with Gentoo, however, I like Slackware. I was wondering if any-one could point me toward the direction of how to install Slackware and then utilize syslinux to make it bootable?
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Jul 2, 2010
I'm running a Lucid Wubi system and I just got everything exactly the way I like it. My brother was having a hard time with Windows and I recommended Linux. Well being the inpatient person he is, he wasn't impressed with it "right out the box". But he's seen my setup and still wants to give it a shot. So I was curious if there was a way to create a Live CD from the way I have it already instead of downloading the "start-up" version from the site? I think they call them distros but I'm not for sure. This would be great I think to help introduce my brother and others to this awesome OS, and plus when I mess with the wrong things(which I have, and will again) I could re-install it from where I was instead of having to redo everything.
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Using a multitude of different programs, including the one the official site recommended, it always hangs at this screen with a blinking cursor:
Code:
SYSLINUX 4.02 2010-07-21 EDD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al
how do I get past this? What's going wrong here? I checked the md5sum of the iso and it matches up with the official one.
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In /media/....Directory not empty, maybe "/temp/..." is not an ubuntu image
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I've tried downloading the gparted ISO a couple of times as I thought the dl might have been corrupted but I can't create a startup disk from the ISO.
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I'm trying to make a bootable USB disk by using syslinux. The USB disk is recognized as /dev/sdc.
#mkdosfs -I /dev/sdc
#syslinux /dev/sdc
After executing the above two commands, it generates errors as follow:
end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 32
printk: 21 messages suppressed.
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 4
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 5
... ...
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 12
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 13
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i have just receive a 4gb USB flash drive in the mail today. And I was wanting to make it into a live usb. when i first put it in my pc it mounted. So i tried making it a live USB by using the Startup Disk Creator in the System>Administration folder. I select the ISO and select sdh1 and hit create. After it got created it. whenever I stick the USB in it never mounts the USB. Also when I try to boot from the USB it just bypasses it and goes to the hard drive.
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